Your position is due to the party; KPCC chief tells ministers

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March 25, 2015

Bangalore: “The ministers must show interest in the party activities as they should realize that they are in the government because of the party”, said State Congress president G Parameshwara during the KPCC State executive committee meeting held at a star hotel on Saturday September 20.

Addressing the member he said that some ministers do not have time to attend the executive committee meeting of the party. People, irrespective of their high positions, should learn to give importance to the party due to which they hold their position, he said

Though Parameshwara avoided mentioning Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in his speech, his remarks appeared to include him also.

Relationship between Parameshwara and Siddaramaiah has strained in the wake of latter’s stiff opposition for the creation of post of deputy chief minister. The party high command has reportedly supported the chief minister’s stand.

However coming face to face with KPCC chief, Dr G Parameshwar for the first time in public at the state Congress party’s executive committee meeting, since the controversy over the latter’s ambition the CM blamed the media for trying to drive a wedge between them.

Siddaramaiah said, “Dr Parameshwar and I are good friends. We have taken many decisions together. A section of the media is trying to drive a wedge between us for the sake of sensationalism. I have full faith in him,” asserted the CM.

However Siddaramaiah had left the meeting midway citing his official engagements at Vidhana Soudha. R V Deshpande, V Srinivas Prasad, H Anjaneya and U T Khader are among the ministers who did not attend the meeting.

Later, the executive committee passed a resolution stating that the ministers should work more aggressively and should be pro-active in serving people. Senior party leader M V Rajashekaran is learnt to have warned the government against sending out a wrong message to two major communities of Lingayat and Vokkaligas in the State. People belonging to these communities are of late increasingly feeling that the government was not representing them.